Tony Robinson

Tony Robinson, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Colorado Denver. He earned his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on inner-city poverty and grassroots community organizing.

• Serves as director of the HUD-funded Community Outreach Partnership Center
• Co-founded Denver’s El Centro Humanitario, Save Our Section 8, and Denver Tent City Initiative
• Board member for Denver Jobs With Justice and brain injury advocacy centers

His teaching includes coordinating the CU in the Capitol legislative internship program, directing community-based research internships, and a GIS-focused course utilizing CU Denver’s Facility for Advanced Spatial Technologies. Research integrates urban political economy with political-economic mapping and electoral dynamics. International engagement includes a summer study abroad program in South Korea.